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Female Characters of Holy Writ [selected From the Larger Work].
Female Characters of Holy Writ - selected From the Larger Work Author:Hugh Hughes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: She has seen little but affliction in connection with me and mine; and, therefore, discouraged from sharing my lot any longer, she is gone back unto her own people and her gods. Eeturn thou after her; for what canst thou hope from me more than she could? But Euth said, " Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." Orpah and Euth appear to have been at first equally attached to Naomi. They both accompanied her to the very borders of Canaan. They were both alike commended for their conduct as wives and daughters-in-law. They both lifted up their voice and wept at the thought of parting, and said to Naomi, " Surely we will return with thee, and to thy people." But when she proceeded to describe the desolate circumstances of her situation -- the dreary prospects before them -- the hopelessness of deriving earthly consolation or advantage from sharing . her humble lot, Orpah wavered in her mind and staggered at the difficulty, and thought of her own mother's more comfortable home; and, at last, determined to retrace her steps to her own country and to her own people. Behold in this conduct an illustration of what Our Saviour has since on more than one occasion taught, relative to the reluctance of the human heart to abide all the consequences of true religion. Orpah was like him " that receiveth the seed of God's word into stony p...« less